Four Italian management consultants are recommending Hollywood classics over attending management courses in a handbook called Cinema for Managers.
Chances are they don't need to recommend the flicks. Many a lazy professor will show a movie instead of giving a lecture any old day.
Some of the recommendations:
1. Stephen Spielberg's The Terminal (2004) where the lead "devises a groundbreaking strategy for survival."
2. Jonathan Demme's The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
3. Volver (2006) by the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar where the lead "fulfils her dreams" by acquiring a restaurant against the odds and using her femininity "to handle working relationships and motivate her team."
4. John Wayne flicks are not just frontier tales
of cowboys and Indians but lessons in "leadership, mission and loneliness at the top."
5. Murder on the Orient Express (1974), directed by Sidney Lumet, is a "perfect example of teamwork.
6. Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962), offers "lessons about seduction and betrayal" that will come in useful for the stock market.
What movie did you see in your MBA class?
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